The photos and video being shared by the more than 200,000 people visiting the Adams River near Kamloops over the past few weeks are spectacular. The shallow water of the river is completely red with millions of mature spawning sockeye. … Continue reading →

Clark made a mess
The proposed transit-funding referendum is a political hot pota dreamt up by Premier Christy Clark in the heat of an election campaign has been an ill-conceived, populist promise from its inception.
Rather than crafting the question … Continue reading →

What is the matter with the politicians back east?
I’m seriously beginning to believe that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford isn’t the only person in Ontario smoking crack!
Have they not been keeping up with what is happening in British Columbia?… Continue reading →

From the outside, it looks like another Abbotsford dairy farm.
But try to find a cow in Bruno Rempel’s barns and you’ll be looking until the cows come … well, suffice it to say you’ll be looking for a long … Continue reading →

This faulty B.C.Hydro smart meter installed in a Kamloops-area home had to be removed after clocking up a usage total so ridiculously huge that a Hydro employee scrawled NFG on its face, slang for No F---ing Good. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Industry shouldn’t pay for residential smart meters
Here we go again. The B.C. government and shareholder of B.C. Hydro have now usurped the only remaining power of the B.C. Utilities Commission to allocate costs based on usage — “user pay” … Continue reading →

As the days get cooler and shorter, millions of salmon are making the arduous journey up the rivers and streams of British Columbia to the spawning grounds where they were born. Waiting for this rich pulse of life from the … Continue reading →

Skeena River sockeye salmon are returning in desperately low numbers this summer, causing concern among conservationists for the future of one of British Columbia’s largest and most diverse salmon runs.
The run collapse has triggered closures of commercial and … Continue reading →

Justice Bruce Cohen presented his report, The Uncertain Future of Fraser River Sockeye, on Wednesday, Oct. 31, in Vancouver. This is the final report in the Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. The commission was established in 2009 to study and report on dwindling salmon stocks in the Fraser River, and to make suggestions on their recovery.
(Jason Payne/ PNG FILES)